The Adobe® Flex® Ant tasks provide a convenient way to build your Flex projects using an industry-standard build management tool. If you are already using Ant projects to build Flex applications, you can use the Flex Ant tasks to replace your exec or java commands that invoke the mxmlc and compc compilers. If you are not yet using Ant to build your Flex applications, you can take advantage of these custom tasks to quickly and easily set up complex build processes for your Flex applications.

The Flex Ant tasks feature includes two compiler tasks, mxmlc and compc. You can use these to compile Flex applications, modules, and component libraries. In addition, the Flex Ant tasks include the html-wrapper task that lets you generate custom HTML wrappers and the supporting files for those wrappers.

The mxmlc and compc Flex Ant tasks extend the java Ant task. As a result, you can use all the available attributes of the java Ant task in those Flex Ant tasks. This includes fork, maxmemory, and classpath.

For more information on using Ant, see the Ant project web site at http://ant.apache.org.

Topics

• Installation
• Using Flex Ant tasks
• Working with compiler options
• Using the mxmlc task
• Using the compc task
• Using the html-wrapper task